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ising o o ri in new york and if the internet is an network, it is all of these places where one network and connect another where you have a router at comcast orti rnnte tholece o croft and that is a very physical process, the big refrigerator like machine was blinking lights and the yellow cable connected to it and strung up through the ceiling in a building like this a down into thcagend io throut of othenor mafhe ces, there are about a dozen of these buildings in the world that are by far the most important in order of magnitude more important than the next measured by the fact that they are the places where mo networks meet thannyothr. bungchi not -- don't know whole lot about but i know it's not in the top dozen, the very next tier of most important buildings. intestabouitat es blness to it. yes the buildings are highly secure and you can't just walk in and there aren't at least yet tours of the internet, b you can, because they are in the places whereetworks m, the a onvtibo eru ,re t a where another network is and where are we in the same place that we can physically connecone ro
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our of it is the publishing has a natural home in new york city. frankly, most independent puishers and most writers can't support -- afford to live in manhattan and many more. gontly bou hall, sponsors the brooklyn book festival of which i am one of the organizers which happens every september. this would be our seventh year coming up. i think that has actually been a th bok lerylnizing eventor ha mes he actually put that thing together every year. it has become, thinkone of the greatest literary events in america every year. the other fact that it contrite gatly heardn midtown manhattan, most of the people that work there also live in brooklyn. when you have something like the brooklyn but festas of only the great in the publishers who are therand all the great writers d lid in brooklyn, but jus a lot of blisng peoe,nd it t fest for books. think that is one reason a lot of publishers are drawn. >> well, give us a brief history of novell.@ >> well, maybe an example of@ wee alou m@@ngbo@ kin tle,yife d@@@ invented in the third floor@@@@@ walkup in
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the new york times extended list for for five or six weeks . . for every three hard-cover books they're selling to the books. near parity bit in the fiscal but in the book. that is a revelation. robert reischauer, adjusted his first original called beyond of rage, three months turnaround. the reality is e-book sales are still remarkably small. >> of will to fight to continue. keep up. to sell 10,000 copies of any-but is considered very successful and certainly puts you on the best-seller list. so i would just -- this part of it by saying, the annual book convention, it's two weeks from now. last year, an annual dinner with four very close friends, top editors in chief of public to the publishing houses. he spoke here last year. he was speaking about the we are at a very revolutionary moment and publishing. very easy access to the market. very difficult and complicated access to the retail marketplace , publicity and marketing. we are about to have to revisit what the last year was like. one other thing i would like to mention, and every want to r
the new york times extended list for for five or six weeks . . for every three hard-cover books they're selling to the books. near parity bit in the fiscal but in the book. that is a revelation. robert reischauer, adjusted his first original called beyond of rage, three months turnaround. the reality is e-book sales are still remarkably small. >> of will to fight to continue. keep up. to sell 10,000 copies of any-but is considered very successful and certainly puts you on the best-seller...
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"the new york times" never in the green zone, always in the red zone, and it was not a bad place actually, but it was heavily fortified with glass walls, with a fairly large security contingent almost entirely iraqi, machine guns and all that kind of stuff i think it was better defended than the compound connaughton if benghazi and i mean that seriously but it turned out not to be necessary. and if -- i didn't spend all that much time there because a lot of the reporting that i pass through and it is shifted to a different location, but they have maintained a bureau with armored cars and full-time iraqi staff. it was a fairly expensive endeavor for the newspaper. >> is life for any americans still in iraq still glass walls and armored cars? >> it is a group that is there not this last summer but the saudi the customer before and i went around in the street with all of the iraqis went to a demonstration, went to a store i wouldn't linger in the contested neighborhoods if you went into sadr city and some security it was a million times better than it was in 06 and 07 and i have to say from
"the new york times" never in the green zone, always in the red zone, and it was not a bad place actually, but it was heavily fortified with glass walls, with a fairly large security contingent almost entirely iraqi, machine guns and all that kind of stuff i think it was better defended than the compound connaughton if benghazi and i mean that seriously but it turned out not to be necessary. and if -- i didn't spend all that much time there because a lot of the reporting that i pass...
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he was from upstate new york, so the name is a little misleading. they suffered the same number and proportion of casualties as the 20th main. did the same thing. they had to refuse their flank. you can see where this happened. the terrain is not quite as obvious as it is at little round top. but it's something that is worth doing. so i take people there and try to point out what happened. and i hadn't really known anything about it until i got serious about studying -- read a couple of books on the flight. went over there and looked at the terrain. >> you do a comparison. [inaudible] do you think that time, the facts -- people start comparing facts? >> i've been a one-man crusader for that. so far i don't think i've made much headway. the mystique of picket's assault, picket's charge. unsurpassed bravery, courage, valor. you know, lost cause but a noble cause. celebrated. they're all heroes. and so on. 13,000 men, 6-7,000 had become casualties in half an hour. a year ater, 11 months later, 50,000 against confederate trenches and in half an hour los
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times and "the new york post" or printing them. the teacher has 20 children in a class of 40 to read it doesn't matter a quarter of the kids didn't even come to the class in the middle of the years. the teacher sees her name with the words and effective mediocre, rotten apple, that's "the new york post," that's happening right now. it's nothing more than a shaming ritual, but it's the purpose to drive the stake into the hearts of teachers and drive the best ones who refuse to teach the test out of educational together is certainly is the test. i wish the president would condemn this assault on the dignity of teachers dillinger his heparin with all of the authority that he has to command he does a tremendous eloquence and i wish he would defy the right wing mats and step up and condemn this out rightly. the people that have contempt for teachers who tried for years to repair the legacy of public schooling in the nation or a voucher advocates remember that term? i know you have a small voucher program in d.c. many of these people in
times and "the new york post" or printing them. the teacher has 20 children in a class of 40 to read it doesn't matter a quarter of the kids didn't even come to the class in the middle of the years. the teacher sees her name with the words and effective mediocre, rotten apple, that's "the new york post," that's happening right now. it's nothing more than a shaming ritual, but it's the purpose to drive the stake into the hearts of teachers and drive the best ones who refuse...
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>> guest: while 10 new york city he bought "uncle tom's cabin" that was just released. he was harrowed by the contents and he was attracted to the slave trade. the commercial aspect, of the selling of humans. he was determined to witness this aspect. he opens the newspaper and sees several advertisements. he asked somebody where the sales were located. just a few blocks away from jefferson capitol building the great symbolic and lynch of democracy but yet to three blocks away people were sold six-- per week thousands a newly sold within cent south. so "the reader" could go on with that journey. during research john d. the end commercial directories to understand where it took place in relation to the of their biggest mrs. , industry, a church, state buildings, none of them are far removed but the slave trade was talk the way. you would not go there unless you have reason. they were not ashamed to but not proud. virginia slave economy was not growing but stagnating. the agriculture economy was stagnating. reason why so many slaves are sold because there were not to news
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to new york to portland, oregon, to towns and cities in between. we've had 1010 beauties in new england, massachusetts we attended his and our smaller towns, and 10 came together last year and passed by overwhelming margins again like on the other resolutions, 75%, condemning citizens united, calling on congress to send in a minute to the states for ratification. we have the business committee calling for. we've got everything that it takes to get an amendment done with this american consensus that something is deeply wrong and can't be fixed. it's a structural problem because it's been injected into our constitution. it needs a sort of renewal of democracy with a set of the minutes, i the one a minute or two perhaps. one going after corporate power, the other after the idea that money is speech. so i think we can do it. i know many people in this room have done a lot of work on it and it want to be doing it. so for those who are not convinced yet i hope you'll join us. for the thrill of those, all, yes, good luck, thank you. read the book. my publ
to new york to portland, oregon, to towns and cities in between. we've had 1010 beauties in new england, massachusetts we attended his and our smaller towns, and 10 came together last year and passed by overwhelming margins again like on the other resolutions, 75%, condemning citizens united, calling on congress to send in a minute to the states for ratification. we have the business committee calling for. we've got everything that it takes to get an amendment done with this american consensus...
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second was herriot rat who went on to represent in "the new york times" after us. "wshon post" center corporate lawyer to negotiate with us in on the show telephoning e one deputy secretary of atw for president johnson. so we settled finally and spring 7 wtoedro i time the timetables. we had a third of the writers and reporters to be women and a third of the researchers tbe a man. >> what was your career trajectory? se n 1975.ave beewse awmn and in august of 75, i was promoted to that position. so i was the first benighted arachnids beat. o s,upo enwhe d he nd the beast, came of age in the 60s and ultimately challenged all the things were raised to believe what implements role is in the wrd ane ctatha e. yowo today.r >> as the senior editor, you become part of management, don't you? was that difficult for you? >>ou know, them ho was erpo teen mi management in organization is for a lot of discrimination to place. the added airing was a convert the cause very quickly. the other senior editors had a very hard time i'm a man h iet riorm ede when i was in the meeting sa
second was herriot rat who went on to represent in "the new york times" after us. "wshon post" center corporate lawyer to negotiate with us in on the show telephoning e one deputy secretary of atw for president johnson. so we settled finally and spring 7 wtoedro i time the timetables. we had a third of the writers and reporters to be women and a third of the researchers tbe a man. >> what was your career trajectory? se n 1975.ave beewse awmn and in august of 75, i was...
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written in new york, and it did not have much of an impact on new york itself because the state of new york only ratify the constitution by three votes, three votes. so these 85 essays that people say are the definitive source on the constitution did not have much impact at the time. but there are others, and other members of the founding generation who perhaps are even more important than people like james madison. of course often called the father of the constitution, and i say that is a misnomer. historical scholars have come around to that over time. he did present the virginia plan or at least road and of course it was presented by the virginia delegation at the philadelphia convention, but the constitution that we have is not his. it was born over and over in the philadelphia convention and modified over and over by a number of important people. some of these people you're probably never heard of, like john dickinson of delaware. police say, who the heck is john dickinson? a guy that was called that tent of the revolution, one of the most important man of the founding generation
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on tuesday, rodney king speaks at the schaumburg center for research in black culture in new york city. "book tv" will bring you this event online. at 630 eastern, go to "book tv".org and click the watch button under the events and featured programs. you can also check our television schedule at booktv.org of air times of this event. >> we want to introduce you to mattew staver here at liberty university where he is a vice president, dean of the law school, and a professor as well, and director of the liberty center. can you give us an overview of liberty university? >> is the largest christian university in the world. it has over 1200 students and 80,000 online students. we are at around 92,000 students and will soon be over 100,000 students a year. it is one of the fastest growing universities in the world. it combines residential students as well as online. it is a school that has both undergraduate and graduate and law school -- we are opening up a medical school the school, film, and arts. >> since doctor falwell's death in 2007, who has been the head of the school? >> there is a
on tuesday, rodney king speaks at the schaumburg center for research in black culture in new york city. "book tv" will bring you this event online. at 630 eastern, go to "book tv".org and click the watch button under the events and featured programs. you can also check our television schedule at booktv.org of air times of this event. >> we want to introduce you to mattew staver here at liberty university where he is a vice president, dean of the law school, and a...
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>> barges started in new york. suppose it started in new york, philadelphia, and they were towed by steam -- >> right. >> up to albany, and they were left there; right? aassume, just left there -- >> right. >> how did they traverse the canal to buffalo, for example. >> most goods would not come up the hudson river in barges. it goes up the hudson river initially for a brief period in sailing ships, but ultimately in increasingly larger steam boats in 1807, and the canal completed in 1825. it was a separate segment, good went from new york city, up the hudson to albanyings and they were transshipped to canal barges. did i answer the question? no, tell me. i'm not sure i did. >> i think so. >> okay. [laughter] go ahead. >> [inaudible] >> the mules were ownedded by the canal companies; right? you had barges that took goods and barges that took passengers, but in all cases, pulled originally by horses for the first couple of years, but then it was discovered that mules are actually pull harder and longer and with -- an
>> barges started in new york. suppose it started in new york, philadelphia, and they were towed by steam -- >> right. >> up to albany, and they were left there; right? aassume, just left there -- >> right. >> how did they traverse the canal to buffalo, for example. >> most goods would not come up the hudson river in barges. it goes up the hudson river initially for a brief period in sailing ships, but ultimately in increasingly larger steam boats in 1807,...
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they have so much national appeal that new york is a possibility. miami, other cities. it's not just a philadelphia thing. i think you would be wonderful if she were here. unlike new jersey we do have large spaces that can be used. you have a blank slate inside to develop. i think you would be wonderful if she was here but they are looking at others as well, not just philadelphia. >> after signing of the purchase won't any of this national register placement save or extend this deadline? is there any way to extend? >> the first is this new fund-raising project gets off the ground and the public gets involved. if there are good deals taking place. there's a chance that is going to happen and if the public does rally around the ship and i believe the fund-raising initiative will allow -- one thing i've discovered is if people -- and i've discovered here as well be carried over a million passengers and carry the thousand crew members on each crossing. that's a lot of people with some connection to the ship and my father grew up in a farm in wyoming. a lot of people build m
they have so much national appeal that new york is a possibility. miami, other cities. it's not just a philadelphia thing. i think you would be wonderful if she were here. unlike new jersey we do have large spaces that can be used. you have a blank slate inside to develop. i think you would be wonderful if she was here but they are looking at others as well, not just philadelphia. >> after signing of the purchase won't any of this national register placement save or extend this deadline?...
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. >> guest: new york city, and undergrad at michigan state university. >> host: why did you come to liberty? >> guest: i have to say the best answer is god definitely picked this for my life. i wanted to teach and had given up on that happening, given the path i had pursued, and he made this available to me. the reason i made it personally is i can't think of a greater way to spend my time than training the next generation in the values i hold and liberty university holds, and sending them out to there transform our legal culture. >> host: so, at what point does the lisa miller story end? >> guest: i would -- i don't know when it ended. legally, when she is found or she comes back, and isabella is 16, 17, 18, and obviously can't be forced to visit somebody. i don't know when that will end if don't think the lisa miller story -- i don't hope it ends. imhoping this message in this book resonates with people struggling with same-sex relationships, resonates with leaders and churches. i don't want it to end which is why i wrote the book so people would take this to heart and do
. >> guest: new york city, and undergrad at michigan state university. >> host: why did you come to liberty? >> guest: i have to say the best answer is god definitely picked this for my life. i wanted to teach and had given up on that happening, given the path i had pursued, and he made this available to me. the reason i made it personally is i can't think of a greater way to spend my time than training the next generation in the values i hold and liberty university holds, and...
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in the history of new york and the middle colonies, the mid-atlantic, and without that, new jersey, new york, pennsylvania, delaware, all of that would have been impossible. we would have something that looked like the greater connecticut or virginia. so the fact that the dutch were here made the difference. >> we've been talking withlñ columbia university professor evin haefeli new netherland and the dutch origin of american religious liberty. this is book tv on c-span2 at columbia university. >> booktv of c-span2 we want to introduce you to two independent bookstore owners. medish kaplan is the owner of books and books in the walls florida and some other locations and is also the founder of the miami book fair international which booktv covers every year and we also want to introduce you to betsy. she runs a bookstore called the king's english in salt lake city utah. welcome to book tv. >> thank you very much. >> what is it like in 2012 to be an independent bookstore owner? what are the main challenges? >> it's exciting finding the place in the market has been tricky. we are full
in the history of new york and the middle colonies, the mid-atlantic, and without that, new jersey, new york, pennsylvania, delaware, all of that would have been impossible. we would have something that looked like the greater connecticut or virginia. so the fact that the dutch were here made the difference. >> we've been talking withlñ columbia university professor evin haefeli new netherland and the dutch origin of american religious liberty. this is book tv on c-span2 at columbia...
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not in places like new york. new yorkers know better, right? ioifl ee ived n demo, thheth a t in this post-emancipation story. this is a slide from the chcago cets of 1990 dry 13r-yd been murder at a beach because he swam across te lor line. many people losttlis, aanri e u leb tis lminme u describe the ideal lake ray shall integrated hyde park that is now the home of the first fami, the bombs are ging off whs ng io?reh >> kwascedn adi c crt hn mle obama's great-grandmother, lived in hyde park and that w a big deal. she lived not farrom where the obamasive today, a somne hacndo mt ic mon sud t thh r isced e bombings, african-americans were moving into hyde park and there was this activconctedcampaign meth t. i iz moss t 'tlo conversation. suspicious propaganda. >> it was remarkable, and i many tere.mber now eactay h ancoinaf a again, i don't know -- >> there is clan activity in hide part. >> it was a the really striking ti thot dknao mrba riv arned that phoebe had talk about it, that when the violence of the riots were sweeping the city, hebatre
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>> guest: new york city. based in new york. i don't know quite what it's about, but i know it will deal with the very rich and the changing nature of wealth and the very poor and the changing nature of poverty. and i know it involves a child living in the most dysfunctional heart of that at least somewhat dysfunctional city. i'm really fascinated by the horrid gin lane -- like conditions under which some children in new york are growing up. so, i'm going to do that. i'm not going to do some of the maybe more predictable things. i don't want to do a column, i've already decided that, or commentary and stuff like that. i want to stay home and be a serious writer. i'm going to write some for tv, too. and still try to be a serious writer in tv. i have a boy who's 2 1/2 and he's growing quickly. he's going to leave me soon and go to school, and in new york when they go to school they leave at 8 in the morning and then between lessons and scheduled play dates you don't see them until 4 or 5 pm, when they come in with their little bri
>> guest: new york city. based in new york. i don't know quite what it's about, but i know it will deal with the very rich and the changing nature of wealth and the very poor and the changing nature of poverty. and i know it involves a child living in the most dysfunctional heart of that at least somewhat dysfunctional city. i'm really fascinated by the horrid gin lane -- like conditions under which some children in new york are growing up. so, i'm going to do that. i'm not going to do...
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>> i went to law school in new york city, an undergrad with michigan state university. >> why did you come to liberty? >> i would have to say the best answer is god definitely pick this for my life. i wanted to teach, kind of given up on that happening, given the path i had pursued. he made this available to me. the reason i made it personally is i can't think of a great way to spend my time and training, and send them out there to train our legal culture. >> at what point does the lisa miller story and? >> i don't, i don't know when it is the legally it will in when she is down or she comes back, when isabel is 16, seven, 18 and can't be forced to visit somebody. i don't know when that is going to end. i don't think the lisa miller store, i don't hope that nstic i'm hoping this message and this book in particular resonates with people struggling with same-sex relationships, and what they can do. i don't want it to in which is why i wrote the book so people would take this art into something. >> are you currently working on other cases similar to this at all?
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new york is making from the u.s. cotton trade. there are many other southern supervisors in the city of new york. maybe in boston, maybe you could have exhibited something to that bear. but it would have been a very difficult thing. an artist i'd worry about his market. american artists did not paint a subject as difficult as this. they rarely even touched upon the subject of slavery prior to the civil war because they did not wish to offend what they would have described as their southern customers. >> to their become a genre of abolitionist art? >> there is. there is an enormous amount of abolitionist imagery. what my book tries to trace is a particular story of talking about how an abolitionist imagery -- how we get to the slave auction. by the 1850s, it was the new subject in anti-slavery imagery. the most famous early anti-slavery image, and in fact, the earliest is one that shows the international slave trade. it was an image produced in britain in 1797 that shows the plans and sections of a slave ship, with hu
new york is making from the u.s. cotton trade. there are many other southern supervisors in the city of new york. maybe in boston, maybe you could have exhibited something to that bear. but it would have been a very difficult thing. an artist i'd worry about his market. american artists did not paint a subject as difficult as this. they rarely even touched upon the subject of slavery prior to the civil war because they did not wish to offend what they would have described as their southern...
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we are in new york city. we have been watching it -- talking with the chairman and president of the norton company. >> all this week c-span has brought you live gavel-to-gavel coverage of this year's republican national convention in tampa, florida. this is the final session among the speakers theater went -- in the meantime, you're on c-span2 to ms. book tv all day every day throughout the conventions withf nonfiction authors and books from this past year. and on c-span three throughout the convention 24 hours of american history tv with lectures tomorrow histories, and a look at historical american sites and artifacts. browse the rare books collection at ohio state university. >> ulysses was originally published between the 1918 and 1920. an american periodical. we have copies of all those as well. the reason i brought these out is not so much to show you this first edition, but to show you a later edition that is extremely rare. 1921, the american government declared ulysses obscene and pornographic. the b
we are in new york city. we have been watching it -- talking with the chairman and president of the norton company. >> all this week c-span has brought you live gavel-to-gavel coverage of this year's republican national convention in tampa, florida. this is the final session among the speakers theater went -- in the meantime, you're on c-span2 to ms. book tv all day every day throughout the conventions withf nonfiction authors and books from this past year. and on c-span three throughout...
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this is 60 hudson street in new york. and if the internet is a network of networks u it's all about these places where one network can connect to another, you know, where you have the router of one network, a comcast or a time warper connected -- warner connected to another network of facebook or google or microsoft, and, you know, that's a very physical process. it's about, you know, a big refrigerator-like machine with blinking lights and a yellow cable connected to it and strung up in the ceiling of a building like this and down into the router of another network. and there aren't as many of these places as you might think. there are about a dozen of these buildings in the world that are by far important measured by the fact that they are the places where more networks meet than any other. in seattle that's the westin building which i did not visit and don't know a whole lot about, but i know if it is not in the top dozen, it's sort of the very next tier of most important buildings. but this thing that's interesting ab
this is 60 hudson street in new york. and if the internet is a network of networks u it's all about these places where one network can connect to another, you know, where you have the router of one network, a comcast or a time warper connected -- warner connected to another network of facebook or google or microsoft, and, you know, that's a very physical process. it's about, you know, a big refrigerator-like machine with blinking lights and a yellow cable connected to it and strung up in the...
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the city desperately needs volunteers and needed runners like a then in new york city and new york. sawyers 90 life-saving acts urge had taken place on board a burning steamboat of which twain had a particular horror. the kind of dread that awakened the journalist that may and saddam shaking in clouds of cigar smoke. for that reason, you listen attentively, switzerland on this route. fire and explosion on board the steamboat independence. in which hundreds died from hideous goals. a steamer in new york city and christmas day 1850 he did not reach san francisco for the first time until september 17, 1851. laying a wide trail of foam impression paddles with abandon, the independent glided towards work, extensional claim commercial streets between the peer and clay street were. this team was screaming to the gauge cox paired weights team was normal and such non-convincing ages, exhaust into the air liquor virginia city hot spring. so i went to live at the shipwreck, which is pretty horrible. not to spoil your evening. it's an amazing feat. tom actually spend the people assure on his ba
the city desperately needs volunteers and needed runners like a then in new york city and new york. sawyers 90 life-saving acts urge had taken place on board a burning steamboat of which twain had a particular horror. the kind of dread that awakened the journalist that may and saddam shaking in clouds of cigar smoke. for that reason, you listen attentively, switzerland on this route. fire and explosion on board the steamboat independence. in which hundreds died from hideous goals. a steamer in...
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of new york of new york when they ratified the constitution by three votes. three of those. so 85 essays people say are the definitive source on the constitution didn't have much impact at the time. but there are others of the founding generation who perhaps are even more important than james madison. of course james madison was often called the father of the constitution. but i say that's a misnomer as a historical scholarship has come around to that over time. he did present the virginia plan or at least wrote it and of course it was presented to the virginia delegation, but the constitution we had is not his. it was gone over and over the philadelphia convention and modified over and over again by a number of important people. some of some of the people you never heard of before that john dickinson of delaware. probably saying who the heck is john dickinson? this is the guy called dependent of the revolution. he was one of the most important men of this generation bar none. when he went to the philadelphia convention, he was at this constitution that james
of new york of new york when they ratified the constitution by three votes. three of those. so 85 essays people say are the definitive source on the constitution didn't have much impact at the time. but there are others of the founding generation who perhaps are even more important than james madison. of course james madison was often called the father of the constitution. but i say that's a misnomer as a historical scholarship has come around to that over time. he did present the virginia plan...
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new york engine company number 14. san francisco had grown and battled fire under chief david broderick and first fire chief. he served with other engine houses and toiled as a steamboat engineer in the mexican tea tray. mark twain, who held strong opinions perked up when sawyer mentioned he had worked as a steamboat engineer. the question and the boy in the steamer environment, such a job, he said knowingly. in the boiling steam room, he pointed out the suffocating temperature of the furnace room in a narrow space between two rows of furnaces which glare like the fires of hell. he shoveled in 140 degrees fahrenheit. sawyer survived twice that long, five years, which is the average, which was because he was a fireman of every sense of the word. you furnaces in every aspect of combustion intimately. stronger track, the thicker the fire should be. his face lit up in the clouds of steam as he warmed to the topic. no hollow places are allowed to form under it, and the temperature increases as fuel reaches its state of bril
new york engine company number 14. san francisco had grown and battled fire under chief david broderick and first fire chief. he served with other engine houses and toiled as a steamboat engineer in the mexican tea tray. mark twain, who held strong opinions perked up when sawyer mentioned he had worked as a steamboat engineer. the question and the boy in the steamer environment, such a job, he said knowingly. in the boiling steam room, he pointed out the suffocating temperature of the furnace...
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her father is called morrill higgins because there are so many in corning new york during this period he cites constantly with the catholic church and asks robert to come and give a talk and corning which is the heavily catholic community. she won't let his wife go to church. his children are only baptized years after they are born, and margaret for some reason may be the middle placement of her birth is greatly attracted to this idea of being her father's daughter as she grows up very aware of the class differences. how many of you have been to corning? then you know the geology. the geology and corning isn't a question of who lives on which side of the street it's who lives at the bottom of the hill. can i call the amount him? and the higgins were at the bottom and margaret became very aware of the better life that families like the with hoaten -- leader kathryn heparin becomes one of her friends but in an autobiography, margaret rights over and over again about how walking by the house's there were two or three children and then goes to the bottom of the mountain at the hill there
her father is called morrill higgins because there are so many in corning new york during this period he cites constantly with the catholic church and asks robert to come and give a talk and corning which is the heavily catholic community. she won't let his wife go to church. his children are only baptized years after they are born, and margaret for some reason may be the middle placement of her birth is greatly attracted to this idea of being her father's daughter as she grows up very aware of...
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. >> you are watching booktv on c-span 2 and we are on location in new york city, daniel book book publishing industry convention held at the javits center in midtown manhattan. we want to introduce you to a new author whose book is coming out in september and his name is kevin powers and has written a novel called "the yellow birds." first of all, give us just a little bit of your background. >> sure, i grew up in virginia. >> before my senior year in high school i ended up owing to iraq in 2004 and 2005, got back. i've always been a huge reader and a writer, too. when i got back from overseas every last i had a story to tell about the war and started writing a book. about a year or two after i got back. post or how long were you in the army? >> guest: eight years total. >> host: did you feel fulfilled being in the armed forces? >> guest: there is a lot i like about it. a lot of good people. i appreciated the discipline. i learned a lot about myself. post goes to you are in iraq in 2003, 2004? >> guest: 2004, 2005. >> host: when you got back and let the army unless the armed forces, what was
. >> you are watching booktv on c-span 2 and we are on location in new york city, daniel book book publishing industry convention held at the javits center in midtown manhattan. we want to introduce you to a new author whose book is coming out in september and his name is kevin powers and has written a novel called "the yellow birds." first of all, give us just a little bit of your background. >> sure, i grew up in virginia. >> before my senior year in high school i...
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this weekend on booktv, new york times washington correspondent jill decanter looks at the first couple in their attempt to balance between personal life with requirements of public life tonight at 11:00. every weekend on c-span2. up next on booktv jean baker recounts the life of margaret sanger rubicam an expert on contraception after watching a woman diver self induced abortion in 1912. this is just over an hour. >> we move into this space last week where there were technical difficulties. we are glad you are here and i hope you found -- and my name is the mandel lighten. our evening event series. we are delighted to see all of you here. jean baker, author of "margaret sanger: a life of passion". she will be in conversation with cristina page. we often think of margaret sanger and the opening of that plan of -- family planning and birth control clinic in brownsville, she started that clinic after be a nurse here from the lower east side. here are two of the cohorts of the nobleman who we will be discussing in just two weeks. tonight's talk is not just fitting because it is timely but
this weekend on booktv, new york times washington correspondent jill decanter looks at the first couple in their attempt to balance between personal life with requirements of public life tonight at 11:00. every weekend on c-span2. up next on booktv jean baker recounts the life of margaret sanger rubicam an expert on contraception after watching a woman diver self induced abortion in 1912. this is just over an hour. >> we move into this space last week where there were technical...
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of new york. >> host: when was founded? when did the europeans find it? >> began in the 1620 use as a colony founded by the dutch. until the 1660s when it was conquered by the english. this series of wars and then the dutch recaptured for about when your 1673 then returned by treaty to the english. >> host: what were the goals when the dutch first came to north america? what was the reason? >> hudson the famous discoverer of the area was looking for the northwest passage working for the east india company. he sailed up the hudson which went pretty far but not all the way to the pacific than discovered people had nice furs and merchants in amsterdam interested in the first so the cullinet began as a fur trading post. so what became the dutch westin day co.'s it was an empire that came from the caribbean and parts of brazil and africa and end in north america. >> host: the commercial reason was not religious? >> it was commercial yes. but up with the dutch imperialism to attack and take territory away from the spanish empire
of new york. >> host: when was founded? when did the europeans find it? >> began in the 1620 use as a colony founded by the dutch. until the 1660s when it was conquered by the english. this series of wars and then the dutch recaptured for about when your 1673 then returned by treaty to the english. >> host: what were the goals when the dutch first came to north america? what was the reason? >> hudson the famous discoverer of the area was looking for the northwest passage...
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this happened in new york she said i want you to come to chicago. walked on the street i grew up on the interview my mom and my friends because of what you had done. the power of michelle obama is more than her. she doesn't stand as strong as she does and what could be considered an awkward body powerful and pure and grounded. and it's so great that you've created this book to tell this incredible story. i'm wondering did she know all of this history before your honor thing of it? >> was new to her. a lot of it was new. she knew -- we have written an article in "the new york times" about the first time she had heard of them or her mother. she didn't know, and her family have long known or suspected that was something they always thought. they didn't know the particulars like many. >> i'd just like to thank you again for the riding of the book. and a quick comment. the evidence i would suggest the evidence that i would refer to that are on the books against if you will would suggest to you this was something that was a very common occurrence that was
this happened in new york she said i want you to come to chicago. walked on the street i grew up on the interview my mom and my friends because of what you had done. the power of michelle obama is more than her. she doesn't stand as strong as she does and what could be considered an awkward body powerful and pure and grounded. and it's so great that you've created this book to tell this incredible story. i'm wondering did she know all of this history before your honor thing of it? >> was...
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to i mean, to go from new york city ba albany, new york. if you took a horse it would take you three days on your own horse or and a coach. if you took a boat, up theee hudson, that would take three rt days if the wind was right. if the wind was bad it could take you a couple, you know, tef days to give from new york city to albany. you know, and on the train, it's like it's a few hours. so, yes, there are restrictionsg that come from not being able to get around. but the flip side of that is what they did know, they knew very well. >> you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. >> here is a look at some books being published this week. nationally syndicated radio and former fox news host glenn beck argues that several issues are not getting the attention that they need a politicians and the media in cowards, what politicians, radicals, and the media refused cent. in twilight of the elites america after meritocracy, christopher hayes, washington d.c. editor of the nation analyzes what the public has developed such a distrust
to i mean, to go from new york city ba albany, new york. if you took a horse it would take you three days on your own horse or and a coach. if you took a boat, up theee hudson, that would take three rt days if the wind was right. if the wind was bad it could take you a couple, you know, tef days to give from new york city to albany. you know, and on the train, it's like it's a few hours. so, yes, there are restrictionsg that come from not being able to get around. but the flip side of that is...
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might be the network of the law firm that perhaps bands from new york to los angeles or a network like facebook or google but what is striking and to understand the way it manifests itself physically is that networks carry networks. you might have a global background company like a level level 3 that owns the strand of glass and owns the conduits like railroad tracks across the country. you might have another company perhaps midsize network services company like electric that might eliminate those strands of glass. they might own the light and and of many might have another company that might be a goldman sachs or large law firm that buys bandwidth on that glass. so we often talk about the information superhighway as if the network itself is a highway. i like to think of it more as the network, given network is a car chugging along the highway side-by-side with other networks because there is definitely a layering going on that's crucial to understanding the way in which the networks of the internet operate individually ,-com,-com ma on a global basis but then of course how they interc
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york and aronberg from new york to be jefferson's running mates for president. i don't know where to go beyond that. just a minute. we can hear you. just a minute. we need to get the microphone to you. >> at the beginning you are saying his stand was one of the largest -- one of the largest families and you mentioned a lot of flake, it seemed like a state politics. wasn't like they were lake based in like the franchi said talking about france was what it looked that, like the french system? but like the state of virginia, mostly wasn't that one of the biggest areas that the united states, where light, british culture was like, still exist today. i didn't understand on the state level. you talk about local politics than he favored, like a french kind of like -- you mentioned -- you were saying -- >> i don't know what you mean by favoring french. >> no -- on the local level when you're talking about -- i think you touched on property right and you're talking about like politics and ideology and philosophical politics or philosophical politics. i'm curious how that
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did any of you happen to see the article in the new york times last month where they did a study of constitutions that have been developed in modern times that shows that the u.s. constitution is no longer the model that is being used? it has fallen out of favor? anybody see that? you did. okay. that was perfect. my moderator's read it. supreme court justice ruth better ginsberg said if i were writing the constitution today i wouldn't use the u.s. constitution as a model either. most pointed to the constitution in canada as a more relevant model today. i am just wondering before i begin my formal presentation, how many of you today think that the u.s. constitution would serve as a good model for constitutional creation in other nations? anyone? a lot of you. a whole lot of you. can you tell me why? is the microphone out there? i saw a lot of hands go up. right over here. >> it has been around 2 is 36 years. >> so the fact that it has been around a long time means to you that it works. okay. i will use you as a foil for a second. how many of you think our government on the federal level is working
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to new york to portland oregon to the towns and cities in between. we have had the ten meetings in new england, massachusetts and in our smaller towns and ten came together last year and passed by overwhelming margins again like all the other resolutions, 75% condemning citizens united, calling on congress to send an amendment to the state for the ratification. we've got the business community calling for it. we've got everything that it takes to get an amendment done with this american consensus that something is deeply wrong and can't be fixed with tinkering. it's a structural problem because it's an -- it's been injected into a war constitution and needs a sort of renewal of democracy with a set of amendments so either one amendment or to perhaps one giving after the corporate power and the other is the idea that money is, so i think we can do. i know many people in this room have done a lot of work on it and they want to be giving that if they don't think we are going to win. so, for those that are not convinced yet i hope he will join us. thank
to new york to portland oregon to the towns and cities in between. we have had the ten meetings in new england, massachusetts and in our smaller towns and ten came together last year and passed by overwhelming margins again like all the other resolutions, 75% condemning citizens united, calling on congress to send an amendment to the state for the ratification. we've got the business community calling for it. we've got everything that it takes to get an amendment done with this american...
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in the new york fire engine co. no. 14. and the first fire chief. sawyer served with the other engine houses and toiled as a steamboat engineer flying the mexican sea trade. mark twain perked up when sawyer mentioned he was a steamboat engineer. the journalists, and danny boy who dreamed of shipping as a steamer or fireman, such a job he said knowingly has little drawbacks and the boiling steam room, he point out the furnace room where engineers standing in aerospace between two rose of furnaces which glare like the fires of hell and shoveled coal for four hours at a stretch. steamer and firemen did not live on average over five years. sawyer survive twice that long because he was a fireman in every sense of the word. extinguished fires and stokes fires to fury. the new furnaces in every aspect of combustion intimately. the strong bid for out the bigger the fire should be, he explained. his face lighting up in the clouds of steam as he warms to the topic. of the fire's sickness is kept even and no hollow places are allowed to form under it, the furn
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and in 1970 left his family, went to new york and joined -- [inaudible] in new york. took up with a woman 20 years his junior, could be found at elaine's, was hobnobbing with all kinds of people who who were part of the celebrity set, and he was loving it but alternately feeling guilty about what he'd done and what he owed his family and his children. and his children were, in fact, very angry at him for this. and i think that kurt's career after that follows kind of an arc was he left his wife jane behind, his first love, jane. and jane, as i began to explore her personality and her interactions with kurt, i think, was really his in-house editor, critic, advocate. she had majored in english with a phi beta kappa, and she knew literature, and kurt had an incomplete education, and here was his wife who could really hip him and did -- help him and did. and after he left, i think it's no coincidence that his novels after 1970 become more and more autobiographical. he talks more and more about himself until you get to time quake in the 1990s when it's just a collection, r
and in 1970 left his family, went to new york and joined -- [inaudible] in new york. took up with a woman 20 years his junior, could be found at elaine's, was hobnobbing with all kinds of people who who were part of the celebrity set, and he was loving it but alternately feeling guilty about what he'd done and what he owed his family and his children. and his children were, in fact, very angry at him for this. and i think that kurt's career after that follows kind of an arc was he left his wife...
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the commitment that new york makes is a commitment to everyone. if you take a moment to think about not being able to open that book and read it without some kind of intervention you get the idea this is an amazing circus that the government has created and we have been able to offer in new york for decades and decades. >> congress annotation. >> this is the free service that is offered through the national library service for the blind in the library of congress, citizens in all 50 states. the focus is to provide the chance for people to read who are disabled, people who can't hold a normal book or read a normal book. they may be blind or have other handicaps or disabilities that prevent them from opening a book and using a book as it is intended so we circulate about 850,000 different items, represents a huge, vast array of fiction, popular fiction, nonfiction, quotation books, you name it. most of those are either mailed to people, though our movement now is for digital books or for people to be able to download from their home computer or homa
the commitment that new york makes is a commitment to everyone. if you take a moment to think about not being able to open that book and read it without some kind of intervention you get the idea this is an amazing circus that the government has created and we have been able to offer in new york for decades and decades. >> congress annotation. >> this is the free service that is offered through the national library service for the blind in the library of congress, citizens in all 50...
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also this weekend on book tv, in her new release new york times correspondent judy cantor looks at the first couple and their attempts to balance a busy personal life with the balance of public life. tomorrow at 11:00 every weekend. >> up next jim baker recalls the life of birth control advocate margaret sanger. a bill will propose that. this is just over an hour. >> in case you did not know we moved into this space last week. we are playing with the technical difficulty. we're glad you're all year, and i hope you all founded drink and appreciate your patience. my name is amanda. curator of the evening event series. i am delighted to see all of you here. she's doing to of having a conversation with cristina page. the opening of that family planning and birth control clinic at 4610 voice street. she started exiting after being a nurse you're on the lower east side. she was a cohort of emma goldman, who by the way we will be disgusting -- discussing in just two weeks. it sends night stalker is not just fitting but surprisingly timely, it is fitting because they're is a good chance that s
also this weekend on book tv, in her new release new york times correspondent judy cantor looks at the first couple and their attempts to balance a busy personal life with the balance of public life. tomorrow at 11:00 every weekend. >> up next jim baker recalls the life of birth control advocate margaret sanger. a bill will propose that. this is just over an hour. >> in case you did not know we moved into this space last week. we are playing with the technical difficulty. we're glad...
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the independent executive works well for massachusetts and new york let's build on that and so on. the bill of rights and george mason, virginia bill of rights. abolition of slavery occurred in various states, and then out of for a lesson, so what has gone before us clacks we have a duty to the future and i think they tried the best when they actually are understanding and respect all and that is part of the national archives. if i can just on a personal note tell you why i'm here. and justice thomas's presence is no explanation. what the heck am i doing here? when i was 11-years-old i came to the national archives and i got this document that is a big version of the emancipation proclamation, iain the innovation proclamation look at the 100th anniversary of the 50 years ago september 1962 and released at special edition for the kids like me and i got my picture of abraham lincoln. [laughter] that made the not cynical. they come at a very young age to a place like this the exposed to mr. langdon been exposed to the declaration of the independent constitution and i think i'm here to
the independent executive works well for massachusetts and new york let's build on that and so on. the bill of rights and george mason, virginia bill of rights. abolition of slavery occurred in various states, and then out of for a lesson, so what has gone before us clacks we have a duty to the future and i think they tried the best when they actually are understanding and respect all and that is part of the national archives. if i can just on a personal note tell you why i'm here. and justice...
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most people see him as from chicago or new york. but langston did move to a high when he was in high school. he finished four years of a school here in cleveland, actually. and one of the letters that he wrote talks about him going to school and graduate from central high school in cleveland. he came back to ohio and he wrote @booktv actually, he wrote [indiscernible] ball he was staying a hotel in cleveland. he considered himself in a higher rider. when the postage stamp that was tickets in a few years ago was launched the national launch was in cleveland , the ohio launch this year in ohio. a wonderful women's history and women's suffrage collection. one of the ohio people that actually ran for president before women had the right to go was victoria will. victoria was quite a character. she ran for president in 1873. her running mate was frederick douglass. she was a woman way ahead of her time. people often refer to her even as mrs. c. she believed women should have equal rights. she was the first -- she and her sister were the f
most people see him as from chicago or new york. but langston did move to a high when he was in high school. he finished four years of a school here in cleveland, actually. and one of the letters that he wrote talks about him going to school and graduate from central high school in cleveland. he came back to ohio and he wrote @booktv actually, he wrote [indiscernible] ball he was staying a hotel in cleveland. he considered himself in a higher rider. when the postage stamp that was tickets in a...
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if the wind was bad it could take you a couple -- ten days to get from new york city to albany. and now on a train it's like, what, few hours. so, yes, there are restrictions that come from not being able to get around. but the flip >> intellectual, bright, young likely affluent kids, you know, or privilege kids get to go to stanford, very smart. within three days the guards were beating the crap out of them. i mean, they were like that would never happen. why would that ever happen. you put them in that situation and it happens. so the longer you are immersed in these worlds, the easier it is to kind of forget like where you are. that definitely happened to me on a number of occasions. so those events were the ones where i would use the word fanatical because it was like now, we're going to eat only the food that they ate -- rome, the best way to reenact, hasn't changed. grapes, salami, more bread, wine, perfect. so much better. somebody else had a question i saw over here. >> what did you find to be the easiest aspect of writing the book, and what were the more difficult aspec
if the wind was bad it could take you a couple -- ten days to get from new york city to albany. and now on a train it's like, what, few hours. so, yes, there are restrictions that come from not being able to get around. but the flip >> intellectual, bright, young likely affluent kids, you know, or privilege kids get to go to stanford, very smart. within three days the guards were beating the crap out of them. i mean, they were like that would never happen. why would that ever happen. you...
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new york, new jersey, and portions of pennsylvania. the author recalls the importance of the region during the war and visits several sites to document their historical significance and it plans date today. from washington's crossing of the dollar to the battle of brooklyn, it is about an hour and 15. [applause] >> this subtitle of this book is old irishman. it is a great honor to introduce the author and my friend, robert sullivan. i have known to geniuses in my life. one is dead, and the other, robert sullivan, is alive. although that reversal in is not the robber solomon he was receiving. not exactly, but more but then the moment. first, brazil and is the author of seven extra hour bucks. meadowlands, will hunt, how not to get rich, rats, cross-country , the throw you don't know, and the one that brings us here, my american revolution. in mine and humble opinion each of these books is its own line and masterpiece. wonderfully idiosyncratic, uniquely incisive. each is an investigation of the american my state and song skate into rela
new york, new jersey, and portions of pennsylvania. the author recalls the importance of the region during the war and visits several sites to document their historical significance and it plans date today. from washington's crossing of the dollar to the battle of brooklyn, it is about an hour and 15. [applause] >> this subtitle of this book is old irishman. it is a great honor to introduce the author and my friend, robert sullivan. i have known to geniuses in my life. one is dead, and...
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they had hundreds of millions in the construction projects in new york. when people talk about corruption scandals of the gilded age those of the two that stand out neither of which had anything to do with ulysses grant. his administration did have scandals, no question about that. these are pretty small compared to the big ones. the essential problem grant faced was the early history of the grant administration were written by his enemies. you might think it is said again and again that the victors write the history. they did not write the history of the civil war. the losers, the lost cause of the south and southerners had no stake in grant's reputation but the other thing was half the republican party failed on grant. the republican party originally consisted of two wings, the anti slavery wing and the pro-business wing and the two wings worked well enough together during the civil war but after the civil war ended and slavery was gone it was a corporate wing of the republican party that took over and the corporate wing wanted nothing to do with free m
they had hundreds of millions in the construction projects in new york. when people talk about corruption scandals of the gilded age those of the two that stand out neither of which had anything to do with ulysses grant. his administration did have scandals, no question about that. these are pretty small compared to the big ones. the essential problem grant faced was the early history of the grant administration were written by his enemies. you might think it is said again and again that the...
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he was indicted for murder in new york state also in new jerseyue. he had to flee to philadelphia to avoid arrest. w you have this sitting vice president under indictment and on the lam from the law.dict this was a remarkable turn of the fence and a river understood that his political future was pretty much over as a conventional figure. was and he decided to turn his attention to the west. as an american tradition if your life goes south come ago glass. mchale left office as vice president he made a six month journey during the ohio and mississippi river. this map, but said dotted line is set out word trip tootte follow the river and the solid line is money had to go to the forest to get home to it was the zigzag he called on many important men during c the trip and drop din on to future presidents.ng t jackson and harris in. senators, a couple of militia general's. always interested in than those of generals and we have not paid our soldiers very well. and as compensation in the coming every offered the officers land out west. it was a roman tradit
he was indicted for murder in new york state also in new jerseyue. he had to flee to philadelphia to avoid arrest. w you have this sitting vice president under indictment and on the lam from the law.dict this was a remarkable turn of the fence and a river understood that his political future was pretty much over as a conventional figure. was and he decided to turn his attention to the west. as an american tradition if your life goes south come ago glass. mchale left office as vice president he...
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>> guest: well, i went to various locations around the united states, to new york--new york state, where he gone to c-: e hetoners. >>stll wt to syracuse university, where i went as an undergraduate, in fact. he went to layette college, which is no longer in existence, penningtoneminary. s,t'. mm and loid spend in those places? >> guest: well, let's see. he went away to pennington seminary when he was 14. he was there a couple of years. then he went to claverack inuthiaser -marhofo up of years. he was at lafayette for one semester and then at syracuse for one semester, and that's when his experiment with college end, as he said. c-sp: and along the way, did you begin tohayo tuder yogi g reonwhoue ni g: , s ly teoubori a raof fthry beginning because i felt this deep, deep connection with him. empathy is the whole key to writing a biography. you don't need to know all the anjuikimted better as the years went on. i pathized with him more. i just--i--i really grew to love him as a human being as well as as a writer. >>st l 2ar anatr he? uehed 90 spwhdi d ueinener an c-span: did he every marr
>> guest: well, i went to various locations around the united states, to new york--new york state, where he gone to c-: e hetoners. >>stll wt to syracuse university, where i went as an undergraduate, in fact. he went to layette college, which is no longer in existence, penningtoneminary. s,t'. mm and loid spend in those places? >> guest: well, let's see. he went away to pennington seminary when he was 14. he was there a couple of years. then he went to claverack inuthiaser...
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casey, a former volunteer fireman with a criminal past in the tombs of new york. king, brought inside to die, was laid out on stall's counter. in life king's huge head -- heavy from so much brain -- lolled to one side as he walked. as he lay dying, his head lolled over the edge of the beer-stained table. when king died in buffett's store, room 297 of the montgomery block, a reborn vigilance committee lynched casey and set the city aflame. stall still held strong opinions. he was vigorously opposed to a number of his patrons, especially the prominent lawyers and judges who were not to adhere to the law and order side. many were the heated arguments, almost to the point, the danger point that arose in the bath and barber's chair. local author pauline jacobson wrote of him. when i first set foot in san francisco in february of 1850, sawyer continued in the clouds of steam, i wanted to be an engineer on a steamer. twain grunted in disapproval. but got sidetracked performing the honest business of fighting fire and training a gang of ragtag, adolescent boys to lead the
casey, a former volunteer fireman with a criminal past in the tombs of new york. king, brought inside to die, was laid out on stall's counter. in life king's huge head -- heavy from so much brain -- lolled to one side as he walked. as he lay dying, his head lolled over the edge of the beer-stained table. when king died in buffett's store, room 297 of the montgomery block, a reborn vigilance committee lynched casey and set the city aflame. stall still held strong opinions. he was vigorously...
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i mean, i see this in new york all the time. they move to some god forsaken neighborhood in the worst part of brooklyn, the next thing you know the rich can't wait. [laughter] to pour in and buy, and buy territory. as a matter of fact, look at the success of winwood. that's the artists as real estate development. sometimes they don't treat them nicely. in providence, rhode island, where you may know the name buddy chauncey was mayor, buddy was a multifaceted figure -- [laughter] but he got the bright idea of, he talked to real estate people who had a lot of just kind of dead property, warehouse and so on in the middle of providence to let artists use these lofts for really token, you know, $50 a month, that kind of thing. and it was the smartest thing he ever did. well, different definitions of smart. he suddenly found corporations were moving in because the artists were all in this particular area. the civic improvements were happening. they used to -- the rivers there in connecticut used to be covered in the pavement for more
i mean, i see this in new york all the time. they move to some god forsaken neighborhood in the worst part of brooklyn, the next thing you know the rich can't wait. [laughter] to pour in and buy, and buy territory. as a matter of fact, look at the success of winwood. that's the artists as real estate development. sometimes they don't treat them nicely. in providence, rhode island, where you may know the name buddy chauncey was mayor, buddy was a multifaceted figure -- [laughter] but he got the...
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i would think he would live part time in the white house and part time in new york. he thinks he's going to die young. whether he thinks he's going survive that long, i'm not sure. >> do you see any comparison between the hillary clinton marriage and fdr and eel near. >> no. do i see any comparison between the hillary bill marriage and the fdr eleanor marriage? the reason i say, no, yes, franklin and eleanor were political colleagues. starting in 1922, which fdr contracted palo. polio. she was the political surrogate. he head the dank. she was instrumental in many of the reforms of the new deal. but franklin had an affair with hillary's private assistant during world war i when she found out, she wanted a divorce. and that was really the end of their marital relationship. their political relationship remained in intact. they never became intimate people again. so the reason why it's difficult is that they had carved out distingive roles, they were very important roles. eleanor was an e extraordinary first lady. it was not something that was a product of the personal
i would think he would live part time in the white house and part time in new york. he thinks he's going to die young. whether he thinks he's going survive that long, i'm not sure. >> do you see any comparison between the hillary clinton marriage and fdr and eel near. >> no. do i see any comparison between the hillary bill marriage and the fdr eleanor marriage? the reason i say, no, yes, franklin and eleanor were political colleagues. starting in 1922, which fdr contracted palo....